New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-14

The approaching ocean yacht race would
attr;c, more genera interest if one OF the con-
testants were an English boat-thc Galatea'
for instance. The Coronct and the Dauntless,
however, are crack vessels, and their race Will
be an exciting incident to all yachtsmen. w HIGH
ever wins, our amiabe English cousins will
not be able hereafter to insinuate that American
yachts may be all very well as racing machines.
but are good for little in regular ocean weather.
Columbia College is going to have jubilee
over its hundredth year. Ii existed as Kings
College before 1887, but it was in that year
that the State Legislature revised and con-
6rmed the ROYAL Charter of 1854 and rechris-
tened the Institution Columbia. Professors. stu
dents and alumni will all do their duty in the
premises, of course, and the undergraduates
ought to add interest to the celebration by win
ming the boat-race at New-London and the
college baseball championship.
The leaders of District Assembly No. 40,
KNIGHTS of LabO-. still declare that they have
won 10 the coal strike. To maze good their
claim they narrow the late contest down to
strike of Austin Corbin's men. This is only a
trick, of course, of Quinn, Drury, Pagan,
Club men to conceal their defeat and avoid
loss of prestige. 1t is ON moral level with
their habit of assuming fictitious names In
managing a strike, especially when it suits
their convenience to avoid the responsibility of
their acts as in the case OF Master Workman
Quinn, who masqueraded last week as Mr..
Putnam" The mass Of intelligent workingmen
who compose the Knights organization will
L A.. -. 49, II
deed. the withdraw al of the brewers assOcia-
ton from District 40 yesterday indicates that
Quinn and the rest of them are beginning to be
found out.
The friends of temperance in New York City
should be busy during the coming fortnight
II will not do to sit down quietly in the thought
that high-lcense bill having been properly
introduced at Albany, the task OF pushing 1T
through may be left to members of the Leg
ivlaturu who favor it. II the measure is to be-
come law, the Legislature must be deeply i'm
pressed with the fact that the best sentiment
of the community demands It, and that the
Third-party Prohibitionists and their rum
selling allies represent only selfish interests.
To this end large msss-meeting will pres
emily be held ut which will be seen the very
flower Of intelligence and good citizenship in
New York City. That will mean q grea. deal,
but not everybody will be able to attend, and
every one, therefore, who gets the chance
should sign his name to one Of the many high
license petitions which will be circulated widely
between now and the end of the month.
Ex-Governor Abbetts alleged joint meeting
has been at work for a week or SO in farcical
fashion. but the struggle for the United States
SenatOrship begins in earnest tomorrow. A
Democratic majority of one can be figured if
two men who never were elected are included
in the roll call. But even then Speaker Baird
is counted. and he has hitherto acted with such
refreshing independence that his vote can be
safely set down for some good man aud it IS
pretty evident that Mr. Abbetrs name is not on
his list of good men. Then there is Assembly,
man ThrockmortOn, who has been behaving
like gentleman with a mind of his own, not to
speak Of two or three Senators who rave always
had engagements elsewhere when Democratic
caucus was in session. The immediate future
is not luminous with promise for the ex-GOv-
ernOr, and the Republicans, with DO family
fights to settle. are awaiting the shock with
calmness and keeping their powder very dry.
A calm man was Mr.. Higgins. of No. 223 Hud-
st. For several years the walls of his house
have been cracking, the floors sinking in all
directions and the plaster constantly falling on